Can for coffee



(No Model.)

S. A. FRENCH.

CAN FOR COFFEE, GRAIN, &0. I No. 408,657. Patented Aug 6, 1-889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN A. FRENCH, OF ORANBURY, NEW JERSEY,

CAN FOR COFFEE, GRAIN, 8w.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 408,657, dated August 6, 1889. I

7 Application filed May 10, 1888. fierial No. 273,383. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, STEPHEN A. FRENC a citizen of the United States, residing at Oranbury, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cans for Coffee, Grain, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The invention is an improved device for preventing such perishable articles as coffee, grain, crackers, &c., from absorbing moisture and becoming damaged thereby; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of adevice embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section thereof, showing the interior arrangement of the device,

Referring to the drawings by 1etter,A designates a casing, preferably cylindrical, and provided at a suitable point with the transverse partition a, that divides it into an upper chamber B and a lower chamber 0.

b is a hinged door upon the side of the upper chamber B, and b is a partial partition therein, which inclines downward from front to back, having the open space 19 between itself and the latter.

b is a circular hinged door at the center of the top b of the casing and opening into the chamber 13.

c is a mica-covered space in the side of the lower chamber 0, and c is a series of draftopenings made in the sides thereof near the lower edge of the casing.

. D is alamp, having the oil-chamber d, which is preferably cylindrical and fits within the chamber 0. The lamp is provided with a suitable number of burners d, which project from its upper surface and are provided wit-h the glass chimneys (P, which stand in the draft-tubes E, that are open at both ends and connectthe partition to and the top 71 of the casing A. The-upper ends of said tubes are preferably covered with the perforated plates 6, to prevent anything from falling in the corresponding draft-tubes and breaking the lamp-chimney.

The coffee or crackers are poured through the doorway b and fill the chamber B both below and above the inclined partition, which prevents the said material from running down too fast from above said partition and passing. out of the doorway Z).

When the coffee or crackers are in the upper compartment or chamber, they are kept dry and prevented from absorbing moisture by the heat radiated from the draft-tubes E, that extend through the chamber B, in which tubes the burners establish upward currents of air.

- I am aware that canisters, coal-bins, and like receptacles having an inclined partition to convey the contents to the rear part of the bottom are not new. I am also aware that devices have been constructed for heating solid as well as liquid articles, in which the heating-compartment has been traversed by fines or pipes at the lower ends of which lamps have been arranged; but I am not aware that a storage and dispensing bin having a partition inclined from the front toward the rear side and traversed by the vertical heating-fines has been heretofore known or used.

Having described myinvention, I claim-- A storage and dispensing bin having a supplyopening at the top, a delivery door in front, an inclined partition extending'from the front toward the rear side, and the vertical heating-fines traversing said bin and connecting the top and bottom thereof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

STEPHEN A. FRENCH.

Witnesses:

NELsoN F. CLAYTON, ABRAM VooRHEEs. 

